2026 Illinois Home Visiting Staffing and Salary Survey

All Illinois home visiting programs, regardless of funding stream, are invited to participate in the 2026 Illinois Home Visiting Staffing and Salary survey.

The information collected by this survey will be used to guide state agency partners to strengthen recruitment and retention of the home visiting workforce. Advocates also hope to use this information to push for increased funding for home visiting and home visitor compensation. The survey data will be reported out in aggregate only. No personally identifiable, individual-level, or organizational-level data will be shared from this survey. Responses to this survey will not have any impact on your current funding, or your future eligibility for any funding.

The survey asks about the following:

1) The number of home visitors in the workforce, applicants for vacant positions, and any problems encountered by programs in attracting and retaining qualified home visiting staff

2) the qualifications of home visitors

3) home visitor demographics in comparison to families served

4) average salaries and benefits paid to home visitors and related professionals
5) program budgets and funding streams

This survey should take about 45 minutes of your time. You do not need to finish the survey all at once. Your progress will be saved as you work, and we ask that you complete the survey within 2 weeks from when you first started the survey. If you are unsure how to answer to a question, we ask that you please seek out those who do know the information to answer correctly instead of guessing or skipping the question. We recognize that this is a long survey, and your time and attention is deeply appreciated.

Please complete this survey by April 17, 2026. For more information or questions about the survey, please contact DHS.HomeVisiting@illinois.gov.